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collect
  1. (transitive) To gather together; amass.
  2. (transitive) To get; particularly, get from someone.
  3. (transitive) To accumulate a number of similar or related (objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation.
  4. (transitive, now rare) To form a conclusion; to deduce, infer. (Compare gather, get.)
  5. (intransitive, often with on or against) To collect payments.
  6. (intransitive) To come together in a group or mass.
  7. (intransitive) To collect objects as a hobby.
  8. (transitive) To infer; to conclude.
  9. Synonyms:
  10. Examples:
    1. “We need to collect some wood for the fireplace.”
      “The growth habit of the plants is such that few dead leaves would collect during the fall and winter.”
      “A crowd would collect outside the department store, waiting for its doors to open.”
collectivize
  1. To organize a farm or industrial enterprise on the basis of collective control
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “After that they started butchering the Miskito Indians of the Atlantic coast who refused the communists attempt to collectivize their fishing fleet.”
      “To encourage this process, the government would increase subsidies to those nomads who agreed to collectivize.”
      “In 1928, as every Ukrainian schoolchild now knows, Stalin announced his intention to collectivize the peasantry.”
collected
collectivise
  1. Alternative spelling of collectivize
  2. Examples:
    1. “The only way to rebalance what is now a very unequal power relationship is to collectivise.”
      “The plans to industrialise and collectivise farming at the same time are widely considered to have been the cause of this human disaster.”
      “The choice was not accidental, because the village was considered to be 'reactionary' due to the opposition of its inhabitants to the plans to collectivise the area.”
collecting
collectivises
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of collectivise
collectivizes
collects
collecteth
  1. (archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative form of collect
collectivised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of collectivise
  2. Examples:
    1. “It is probably not surprising that employees in the public sector are five times more likely to be collectivised than their private sector counterparts.”
      “Agriculture was collectivised in the best Stalinist traditions, though far less swiftly.”
      “But Ujamaa, which involved a mass movement of peasants into collectivised villages, did not work.”
collectivized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of collectivize
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The Riazan peasantry was not prepared economically or ideologically for the shift to collectivized agriculture.”
      “Agriculture was collectivized, and the surviving part of the industrial base was abandoned or placed under state control.”
      “The main benefits of localization can be attributed to the presence of skilled labor and collectivized capital resources.”
collectest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of collect
collectivising
  1. present participle of collectivise
collectivizing
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